A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Experiments to Evaluate Sea Turtle Mitigation Measures in the Pelagic Longline Fishery
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey
Summary:: The partnership project resulted in the successful development of fishing techniques that significantly reduce sea turtle interaction with pelagic longline gear.
Website:: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/mediacenter/turtles/
Contact:: John Watson
NOAA Harvesting Team Leader
NOAA
228-762-4591
John.Watson@noaa.gov

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Nebraska Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska
Summary:: Nebraska CREP is giving farmers and their partners the resources needed to reduce sediment and nutrient runoff into lakes and waterways.
Website:: www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/cepd/state_updates.htm#NE
Contact:: Peter Berthelsen
Director of Conservation Programs
Pheasants Forever
308-574-5339
Pete@NebraskaPF.com

Project Name:: Bull River Partnership
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: The public-private partnership permanently protected more than 1,800 acres of key wildlife habitat along the Bull River in northwestern Montana.
Website:: www.conservationfund.org
Contact:: Mark W. Elsbree
Vice President
The Conservation Fund, Northwest Region
(208) 726-4419
melsbree@mindspring.com

Project Name:: Flathead Common Ground
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: FCG was formed with the intent to improve wildlife habitat and forest conditions and to simultaneously utilize economically viable timber sales as a tool to help to achieve these objectives.
Website:: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/flatheadforest.html
Contact:: Gary Dahlgren

Flathead National Forest
(406) 758-5269
gdahlgren@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Missouri River Riparian
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota
Summary:: Landowners Michael and Patrick Wachter worked with partners to prevent loss of agricultural land and other values along the river.
Website:: www.ndnrt.com/pdf/MissouriRiverRiparianwebinfo_ldr.pdf
Contact:: Jennifer Heglund
Assistant State Conservationist
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
701-530-2095
jennifer.heglund@nd.usda.gov

Project Name:: Rathbun Lake Water Quality Protection Project
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Iowa
Summary:: Unique partnership of agencies, private organizations and landowners to reduce contaminates in a lake used for drinking water, recreation and fish-wildlife habitat.
Website:: www.rlwa.org
Contact:: John Glenn
President
Rathbun Land and Water Alliance
641-647-2416
jglenn@rrwa.net

Project Name:: Red River Basin Restoration Effort
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota
Summary:: Partnership works with others to restore aquatic connectivity by removing or providing fish passage around select dams and other barriers to fish passage within the Red River basin.
Contact:: Marcia C. M. de Almeida
Fish Passage Interim Coordinator R9
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
703-358-1941
Marcia_Almeida@fws.gov

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Southwestern Fire Learning Network
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas
Summary:: Project goal is to accelerate restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems on private & public lands through applied science, coordination and collaboration.
Website:: tnc-ecomanagement.org/Fire/
Contact:: Anne Bradley
Fire Initiative Manager
The Nature Conservancy
(505) 988-3867
abradley@tnc.org

Project Name:: Utah Prairie Dog Recovery/Back From the Brink Program/Environmental Defense
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Utah
Summary:: This partnership's new approach has begun to show that private landowners will participate in the recovery of listed species, even controversial ones, given the right incentives.
Website:: www.environmentaldefense.org/go/conservationincentives
Contact:: Theodore P. Toombs
Ecologist
Environmental Defense
303-447-7210
ttoombs@environmentaldefense.org

Project Name:: Binational Ocelot Recovery Project
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:: Conservation agencies, organizations and foundations in Texas and Tamaulipas, Mexico team up with landowners to save the endangered ocelot through incentives-based stewardship.
Website:: www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentid=3469&linkID=49
Contact:: Karen Chapman
Water & Wildlife Analyst
Environmental Defense
956-466-4655
kchapman@ed.org

Project Name:: Black Bear Conservation Committee
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Southeastern: Mississippi
Summary:: The BBCC is a broad-based coalition of diverse interests whose mission is to promote the restoration of the Louisiana black bear through education, research, and habitat management.
Website:: bbcc.org/
Contact:: Paul Davidson
Executive Director
Black Bear Conservation Committee
225-763-5425
PLDavidson@aol.com

Project Name:: Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: The Trust seeks to maintain the viability of rangeland agriculture while ensuring the long-term stewardship and health of Colorado Rangelands.
Website:: cca.beef.org/pages/ccalt-home.htm
Contact:: Lynne Sherrod
Executive Director
Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust (CALT)
303-431-6422
lsherrod@ccalt.org

Far West

Project Name:: Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act Program
Location:: Far West: Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: This voluntary, citizen-based, cost shared program helps protect fish without impairing water withdrawals from streams for farming, ranching, hydropower and municipal purposes.
Website:: pacific.fws.gov/Fisheries/FRIMA/
Contact:: Jerry Van Meter
FWS Regional Coordinator (ID, OR, WA)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(503) 231-6217
jerry_vanmeter@fws.gov

Project Name:: Puget Sound and Adjacent Waters Restoration Program
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: Puget Sound and Adjacent Waters Restoration Program provides assistance to agencies to restore the tributaries, waters, and shorelines of Puget Sound.
Website:: www.nws.usace.army.mil/PublicMenu/Menu.cfm?sitename=RPPS&pagename=home_page
Contact:: Brad Ack
Director
Washington State Puget Sound Action Team
360-725-5437
BAck@PSAT.WA.GOV

Project Name:: Hokulea, Navigating Change in the Hawaiian Islands
Location:: Far West: Hawaii
Summary:: "Navigating Change" is a project focused on raising awareness to ultimately motivate people to change their attitudes and behaviors to better care for all our islands and ocean resources.
Website:: www.navigatingchange.org and www.hawaiianatolls.org
Contact:: Ann Bell
Outdoor Recreation Planner
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(808) 792-9530
Ann_Bell@fws.gov

Project Name:: Morro Bay, Protecting Priority Habitats
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Environmentalists and trawl fishermen combined science and economics to come up with no-trawl zones that protect priority habitats, while keeping enough areas open to keep fishermen in business.
Contact:: Rod Fujita
Senior Scientist
Environmental Defense
(510) 658-8008
rfujita@ed.org

Project Name:: Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC)
Location:: Far West: Washington, Oregon
Summary:: The Spirit of the Fish plan utilizes a gravel-to-gravel approach integrated into an adaptive management framework to restore treaty protected fish resources
Website:: www.critfc.org
Contact:: Olney Patt, Jr.
Executive Director
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
503-238-0667
pato@critfc.org

Project Name:: Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery Plan
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: A collaborative approach that integrates state salmon recovery, ESA recovery, subbasin planning, and state watershed planning into a single process.
Website:: www.lcfrb.gen.wa.us/default1.htm
Contact:: Jeff Breckel
Executive Director
Lower Columbia River Fish Recovery Board
360-425-1553
jbreckel@lcfrb.gen.wa.us

National

Project Name:: GeoMAC
Location:: National
Summary:: GeoMAC provides the public and wildland fire managers Internet access to interactive maps with current wildland fire locations and perimeters.
Website:: geomac.gov/
Contact:: Elizabeth Lile
Cartographer
U.S. Geological Survey
303-202-4326
ellile@usgs.gov

Project Name:: America’s Private Lands Conservation Partnership
Location:: National
Summary:: Conservation Districts carry out natural resource management programs at the local level and work with more than 2.5 million cooperating landowners on nearly 98 percent of U.S. private lands.
Website:: www.nacdnet.org
Contact:: Christa Jones
Regional Representative
National Association of Conservation Districts

christa-jones@nacdnet.org

Current Conservation Programs